State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax
Commons · Question 96643 · Tabled 3 Dec 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Mark Garnier
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Section 4.167 of the Autumn Budget 2025, when her Department plans to publish the solution ensuring that pensioners who only receive the state pension will not (a) have to fill out a tax return and
Answer
Answered by Torsten Bell, 8 Dec 2025
As the Chancellor has said, over this Parliament those whose only income is the basic or new State Pension without any increments will not have to pay income tax. As announced at the Budget, the government will ease the administrative burden for pensioner...